Editor:
The murder of two Canadian soldiers by Islamic maniacs were acts of terrorism; and rightly declared so by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Unfortunately, some people dismiss the threat of Islamic terrorism due to their pathological enchantment with the shibboleth of multiculturalism.
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair outrageously asserts the crimes were committed by "profoundly disturbed individuals" and not part of an evil conspiracy. The flippancy of the NDP towards these atrocities is typical given its opposition to the creation of CSIS in 1984, antipathy towards the Canadian Forces and the RCMP, and the crocodile tears they shed after the 9/11 massacre. Now the NDP pretends to care about national security.
How many "lone wolves" constitute a wolf pack? Both killers were recent converts to Islam; so they must have been influenced and indoctrinated by someone inside or outside of Canada.
The attacks occurred nearly two weeks after Parliament voted to send Canadian Forces into battle against ISIS, which I presume was the motivation of the savages.
Predictably, the anointed "Muslim community leaders" make a futile attempt to separate the perpetrators from the religion, claiming the attacks "have nothing to do with Islam." Under what authority do they have to make that pronouncement?
The problem is that ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban all read the same Koran as one billion other Muslims on Earth. That book declares there is "no compulsion in religion" while, paradoxically, enjoining the reader to "make war on the unbelievers" and to "fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them."
Those words cannot be erased from the text and psychotic clerics like Omar Abdel Rahman (The Blind Sheikh), serving a life sentence for ordering the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, will exploit them to instigate war against Western civilization.
The Muslim population of Canada is overwhelmingly peaceful and loyal. However, when any person treats his religion as superior to the rule of law in a free society, he threatens the liberty of all.
Steven Austin
